Watch Your Life
The second of 2 talks given to Dubai Uni Students in 2018.
The first talk in this series is Watch Your Doctrine.
Sermon Outline
Watch Your Life and Doctrine Closely
Watch closely
How?: Persist in them
Why?: Save yourself and your hearers
Why the letter was written
1:2, 2:7, 6:21 public private – missionary letters
3:14-15 know how one ought to behave (conduct yourself)
Missionary Behaviour in God’s Household (1)
2:1-7 prayer for all in authority
2:8 men in prayer
2:9-11 women in good works
3:1-7 Overseers
3:8-13 Servants
The household confession of truth: godliness is God’s action in Christ Jesus
Departing from the Faith
4:1-2 Spirit predicted the spiritual misleading<- through liars – insincere seared consciences 4:3-4 Deny creation Teaching that accords with godliness
4:6-16 the good servant of salvation
5:1-2 treating people properly
5:3-16 honouring widows
5:17-24 honouring elders
6:1-2 honouring masters
6:3-10 godliness and gain
6:11-16 the man of God: flight, pursuit, fight, hold and keep.
6:17-19 the rich
